The Pakistani High Commissioner in London, Wajid Shamsul Hassan, said Sunday that India was about to launch a military strike on Pakistan in retaliation for the Mumbai massacres, Sky News reported.
Hassan said that British and American officials intervened to prevent India from carrying out an attack.
"On the day of the Mumbai attacks, I got some information in London that India was going to act very drastically against Pakistan in retaliation to what happened," Hassan said. After receiving this information he alerted the Pakistani government and President Asif Ali Zardari to the threat.
In turn, Zardari urgently contacted high level British and American officials who intervened to calm the situation.
"The president spoke to people in various places and the next day Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke to Mr. Zardari and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to Shri Pranab Mukherjee, India's external minister," Hassan said. "It was probably because of that reason why the tension that was building up was eased a little.”